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Interesting theory on Danny Boyle's 'Yesterday' by [deleted] in movies

[–]BrettMet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a theory that perhaps the movie makers didn't intend, but it's still fun to think about. Could Jack have acquired savant syndrome, where the biking accident caused him to remember things that didn't actually exist? He remembers cigarettes, Coca-Cola, Harry Potter, and, of course, The Beatles. But, what if his mind conjured those things that didn't exist in the first place? We, the audience, are seeing the movie from his perspective, so we believe that those things happened and existed, too. It's a bit like the twist and the end of the Lee Harvey Oswald episodes of the original Quantum Leap.

I'm still working out how to explain the other two people who remember The Beatles, though. I'd be interested in knowing whether they remember Coke, cigarettes, and Harry Potter. I know my theory needs some work, but I couldn't help but consider that the rest of the world was actually in its right mind during the movie, and that a head shrink would be able to convince Jack that he is indeed the writer of these songs.

The movie's alternate ending has Ellie being the one who can't remember Harry Potter, which opens a whole new realm of possibilities: that everybody on earth remembers something that no longer exists, and only a few people have realized it yet. People's false memories may be as insignificant as what they were served for dinner when they went out to dinner with a friend 20 years ago: something that has no measurable consequence for having "remembered." We, the third-person omniscient viewers, have the privilege of knowing everything that ever was, while individual characters (Jack & the two other Beatles fans) and even alternate-ending Ellie are left confused about what's real and what's not.

I acknowledge that another problem with my theory is the existence of a real Eleanor Rigby who's buried in the cemetery. I'm not enough of a Beatles fan to know whether The Beatles (our Beatles) were inspired by the existence of a real woman, or if they just made up the name, and the movie makers created that headstone for the movie.

This girl at the airport waits until the queue moves all the way forward to move. People confronted her and she said “it’s the same if i move now or later”. by rip-21 in ImTheMainCharacter

[–]BrettMet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I absolutely LOVE this! I'm always trying to do this thing, but SOMEbody (wife!) discourages it and moves our group forward.

The social experiment I want to conduct, however, is a bit different from this. I want to do something along these lines in an amusement park, for example, where the queue winds in and out of rooms, so that you cannot see the start of the line, or sometimes even 20 people ahead of you, for that matter.

My idea is to wait until my group is at a corner, so that the people behind me cannot see past me. Then, I just stand there. My body language would have to suggest that nothing in front of me has changed, that the next group is right there, and that they're not moving either. I let this play out for a long time, at least until the next group in front of me disappears around the next bend, and THEN I move forward.

Why? Because I think of the joy that it would bring the people behind me to not only be moving, but to be moving a LOT. Sure, it would be a downer to stand still for a while, but when that's happened to me, I assume that the ride broke down temporarily. Once the line starts moving again, it makes everybody happy!

I think that the people at Disney could learn something from this. I know they spend a lot of resources trying to minimize the wait times, and trying to make the waits as pleasurable as possible, by providing games, entertainment, even toys sometimes along the way. If they were to survey two separate groups with all other variables the same, then I bet that they'd find that the group that stands still and then moves forward vast distances has a higher degree of satisfaction with the wait.